Police arrested a man after officers responded to a report of someone threatening another person with a gun at Nate’s Floral Estates late Wednesday night.
The suspect, identified as 64-year-old Bruce Rogers of Ithaca, was taken into custody without incident. Officers say he had menaced the victim with what appeared to be a firearm. They recovered the weapon at the scene.
Rogers is facing two charges: criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a class D felony, and second-degree menacing.
He was arraigned in Ithaca City Court by Judge Wallace and remanded to the Tompkins County Jail without bail.
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